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  1. Bellhorn04
    Either that, or John Henry doesn't feel like adding another $16 million or so to a payroll that's already well over the tax threshold. Blame it on Ben!
  2. Bellhorn04
    Yeah right. You're about as subtle as a pickaxe.
  3. Bellhorn04
    Don't forget, though, that they had previously traded Adam Warren and Justin Wilson. It wasn't that long ago Jacko was wondering what the hell they were doing to their bullpen.
  4. Bellhorn04
    Hey, you're the one who said 4.8 mil per win. That's all I was responding to.
  5. Bellhorn04
    If it makes you feel any better, the Yankees were almost unbeatable last year when they had the lead after 6 innings - they were 57-2 in that situation on Sept. 8/15 when there was a story about it. So they actually can't get much better in that department.
  6. Bellhorn04
    It's the truth, dude. Look up the current dollar value per WAR on FanGraphs if you don't believe me.
  7. Bellhorn04
    It's not a bargain, but it's pretty much the market rate.
  8. Bellhorn04
    Police couldn't find enough evidence to charge Chapman for assaulting his wife. However, the fact that he fired 8 gunshots in his garage is not in dispute. That's a lot of gunshots for no particular reason. Sounds like a guy who has some serious issues, at the very least. This looks an extremely good baseball move by the Yanks. It also looks like a terrible PR move. As a Sox fan, needless to say, I hope it backfires - no pun intended.
  9. Bellhorn04
    I'm not sure there is a consensus that the moves so far make us a contender in 2016. Adding Price, Kimbrel, Smith and Young should probably add 10 wins. That would take us from 78 wins to 88 wins. A number of people here think we still need to add a good #2 pitcher. If they're right, it means we had to add a #1, a #2 and 2 premier relievers. That's a fair amount of upgrading to the pitching staff.
  10. Bellhorn04
    It's a beautiful piece of irony that you're better off with a 50 gamer.
  11. Bellhorn04
    I don't put much stock in the 2015 team looking good on paper. The 2014 team went 71-91. We replaced Lester and Lackey with Porcello and Kelly. We added Miley and Masterson. We added guys like Ross and Ogando to the bullpen. The 2015 pitching staff was a major gamble. Everything needed to go right. The offensive underperformance of Hanley and Panda couldn't be predicted. But putting Hanley in left might have to be described as an experiment at best. There were just way too many X factors IMO. When you have that many X factors projections are not going to be reliable.
  12. Bellhorn04
    You got that wrong. Tony C did not have 'good luck to get hurt'.
  13. Bellhorn04
    Why do you say that Kimmi?
  14. Bellhorn04
    It was reported at the time that the Red Sox were angry, not with Damon, but with Boras, because he said he would give them a chance to match the Yankees offer, but didn't do so.
  15. Bellhorn04
    It may not be Dombrowski's fault, but it will be his funeral. When the games begin DD will be treated no differently from Ben. The team has to perform, or he wears it.
  16. Bellhorn04
    What exactly do you mean by 'he never saw the big picture' in terms of his number one job - the teams he put on the field?
  17. Bellhorn04
    I was happy for him when he won a ring with the A's. He really deserved it.
  18. Bellhorn04
    Bummer. RIP
  19. Bellhorn04
    Well, we'll have to wait and see what happens. But adding Price and Kimbrel sent us considerably farther over the tax threshold than we've ever been.
  20. Bellhorn04
    What about Dumbo?
  21. Bellhorn04
    I can agree with that. But the GM works for the owners. Red Sox ownership has maintained the payroll at a high level year in and year out for many years now - presumably some of that is to please the fans. No hardcore rebuilding years like Theo had to work with, with the Cubs. A big part of Ben's mandate, obviously, was to field contending teams.
  22. Bellhorn04
    Maybe it's just me, but I find it depressing when a bunch of people are calling the team's new head of baseball operations names before his first full season has even started. I could understand it if it was June and the team was sucking, but this is December.
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  24. Bellhorn04
    It's not a good thing that we have multiple posters calling Dombrowski Dumbo. It's no different from Francoma or Inepstein.
  25. Bellhorn04
    The Sox were over the cap in 2015. So 2016 is Year Two. 2016 is also the last year of the current CBA. Personally I think John Henry doesn't care so much about the tax cap these days.
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